What's the difference between font and typeface?

Font


Definition:

  • (n.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
  • (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
  • (n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • iOS 7 is the product of a major redesign – new, thin fonts and a brighter interface with more subtle animation.
  • (2) With no font preferences, every designer can do a picture-perfect layout on every screen, because they don't have to reflow the text accordingly, which is what websites should always do," he says.
  • (3) A pixação-inspired font, Adrenalina , can be downloaded for US$25 and, in 2012, the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art invited a group of pixadores to make an “artistic intervention”.
  • (4) Possible signings Ryan Bertrand, Virgil van Djik, José Fonte (Southampton).
  • (5) But the deeply idiosyncratic Octopuss font on the station sign is a reminder that ‘77 was also the year of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love and Saturday Night Fever: the end of the world may have been nigh, but one corner of Berlin was boogying the night away to uphold western civilisation.
  • (6) At least Farah has now put some distance in their relationship by moving to Font Romeu, his traditional summer camp in the south of France.
  • (7) Stuart, our guide from Wilderness Scotland, is easy-going and unassuming, and also a font of knowledge and a meticulous safety checker.
  • (8) These led to the following conclusions: to construct the best bibliographic searching system at the present time, 1) a concept of micro-to-mainframe links (MML) is needed for the computer hardware network; 2) multi-lingual font standards and an excellent common user-computer interface are needed for the computer software; 3) a short course and education of database management systems, and support of personal information processing for retrieved data are necessary for the practical use of the system.
  • (9) A series of 126 cases of orbitomaxillozygomatic fractures observed in the Maxillofacial Unit of Miulli Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonte between January 1980 and December 1987 is examined.
  • (10) On the U6, a line once dotted with “ghost stations” closed during the GDR era, there are still some stops which look lost in time, such as Platz der Luftbrücke or Naturkundemuseum, their names spelled out in wobbly handcarved fonts.
  • (11) Fonts differ between lines, sometimes between stations on the same line, and in a couple of instances even between platforms at the same station.
  • (12) Southampton had lost Toby Alderweireld to an early injury but Florin Gardos seamlessly filled the gap alongside José Fonte.
  • (13) Sturridge raced down the right and attempted to lay the ball across to the unmarked Suárez but José Fonte stretched to poke the ball behind just as the Uruguayan prepared to pounce.
  • (14) The absence of Toby Alderweireld from central defence is an obvious worry as the Belgian has formed a solid partnership with José Fonte since arriving on loan from Atlético Madrid in September.
  • (15) After Ramsey's fancy flick was diverted by Jose Fonte, Wilshere burst on to the ball and eked out a chip so delicate it sailed over Boruc as if in slow motion.
  • (16) Suarez would have an empty net to sidefoot into had the ball reached him, Boruc having raced out to meet Sturridge, but the low pass is poked out of play by Fonte, sliding in brilliantly.
  • (17) Southampton 1-1 Sunderland (Fonte 88) Another late goal for the Saints.
  • (18) After Forster’s world-class, one-handed save from Giroud’s header, Arsenal sensed the decisive moment was close and it came after José Fonte appeared to have handled inside the area under pressure from Giroud.
  • (19) Spends much of each year training at altitude at Font Romeu in the French Pyrenees and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • (20) Possible signings José Fonte (Southampton), Nélson Semedo (Benfica).

Typeface


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And Slimane is nothing if not single-minded: everything bearing his name – from show invitations to photography books to his online diary uses the same Helvetica typeface.
  • (2) Each word appeared in a typeface whose qualities were either consistent or inconsistent with its meaning.
  • (3) (2) Calorie count given larger and bolder typeface.
  • (4) And, while he's been a successful technologist and entrepreneur and invented devices that have changed our world – the first flatbed scanner, the first computer program that could recognise a typeface, the first text-to-speech synthesizer and dozens more – and has been an important and influential advocate of artificial intelligence and what it will mean, he has also always been a lone voice in, if not quite a wilderness, then in something other than the mainstream.
  • (5) Subjects viewed a series of 4 x 4 grids each containing seven items, which were letters and numbers in one of four typefaces.
  • (6) He used the sans serif typefaces Standard and Helvetica for the author, book title and series name, always in the same size and position above the image, which, on fiction titles, could be a painting, a drawing or a photograph of a piece of sculpture.
  • (7) Just look at the cover of Ware's debut album : she's pictured hair swept-up, with strong brows, the 80s-style typeface only underlining the point.
  • (8) Gill Sans, the sans serif typeface used on the covers of pre-war Penguin books, is rightly lauded in the current V&A Modernism exhibition as the first British modernist type design.
  • (9) And now, as a typeface designer, I see part of it is the typefaces being used.
  • (10) Type has a lot of effect on the atmosphere of a place, he says, calling it “the voice of the city”: “I think cities that don’t have this very dynamic energy, they don’t feel the need to change their identity.” That identity, for many of the world’s largest cities, is intimately tied up with typeface.
  • (11) Responses on trials in which the animal and typeface possessed conflicting attributes were significantly slower than responses when animal and typeface qualities were congruent.
  • (12) Later judgments of the relative frequency with which particular letters appeared in particular typefaces were unaffected by a warning about an upcoming frequency judgment task, but were affected by both the time available for processing the stimuli and the nature of the cover task subjects engaged in while viewing the grids.
  • (13) Trump’s name was emblazoned on it in a font called Akzidenz-Grotesk, a typeface popular 30 years ago.
  • (14) Technology and design sectors blossomed, and many of the old factories became homes to creative start-ups.As part of the effort to rebrand itself, it seemed apt that Eindhoven should turn to an aspect of design – namely, typeface.
  • (15) He made models of the trees; but he found that when he laid the drawings out, he could also create a repeat pattern – and even find letters of the alphabet, a typeface as it were, within the shapes.
  • (16) Because Sheffield was home to the type foundry Stephenson Blake & Co, officials attempted to use the company’s Granby Condensed as the city’s official typeface – an attempt that proved difficult in practice and led to the creation of Wayfarer , still visible around the city today.
  • (17) Describing the redesign (more white space and uncluttered layouts, new typeface and orange signposting), the art director, Nick Cave, says, "It was great to have the freedom to try things.
  • (18) Photograph: Jon Worth When Koovit finally arrived at his original destination, he did some research and found not only that the design community was picking its brains over the origins of the U8 typeface – “Neuzeit Grotesk” and “Wiener Rundblock” were some of the names bandied about on forums – but also that no one had bothered to digitise the font since the U8 line was built at the time of the first world war.
  • (19) She and Suhre now want to tap into this heritage, via a competition to design a new typeface, but also to “suggest a way that design might be the suggested way to solve our city’s problems”.
  • (20) The sculptor and typeface designer Eric Gill is, thanks to MacCarthy's 1989 biography, as renowned for his eye-opening sex life as he is for his importance to the Arts and Crafts movement.